Il 02/10/2012 17:02, Sjur Kolberg ha scritto: > Paolo, > > Sure QGIS could do the visualisation, probably even by function calls with > data in memory, not having to export GIS data sets to disk for every time > step. > > But Statkraft released ENKI under LGPL for a reason. Linking ENKI too closely > with GPL QGIS will make ENKI unavailable for the commercial software sector. > That would be bad news for the hydropower industry I hope will continue > supporting ENKI development. From what I see now, there will still be a need > to maintain ENKI as a standalone program, in addition to making the EnkiAPI > core available for a QGIS plugin.
I understand this very well, and that's where sextante comes in handy: no linking there, it's just python (sextante) calling the executable. So, no prolem in keeping it LGPL. Of course, if one needs an LGPL or proprietary visualizator, that's a different story, but should be mainly a packaging problem (keeping the GUI and the backend separated). Hope this helps. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
